Stjepan Sejic artwork from His Comic series Death Vigil, Image from comicbook.com
Stjepan Sejic is an Comic book artist that produces and
writes his own comics series.1,12 He is a self publishing illustrator who is
currently creating four comic series.1,12 The series are Death Vigil, Ravine, Twitch
and Sunstone.1,12,13 He also does the covers for comics for companies such as
Top Cow, Zenescope, Dynamite and DC comics.1
Stjepan Sejic got his
creative influenced to create comics by his visit to an exhibition called Comic
Biennale which gave him the idea that he wanted to work in the comic industry.2 One of
the comics that influenced him at the exhibition was Witchblade.3 “I was
sixteen when the exhibition called Comic Biennale came to a museum in the city
of Rijeka, where I went to high school. We went there to check it out and there
I got the idea to try drawing comics. I saw a cover to a comic with a
peculiarly memorable title, Witchblade.”4 This title was stuck in his head and used
this as his influence when he went to college where he got started drawing
comics. He was consider to have a very low chance of becoming a comic book
artist by his peers and lecturers.5,6 He was fortunate that fate gave him a
chance and he started illustrating Witchblade in his third year. 7 “The real
kicker is that I read my first issue of Witchblade in the third year of college.”7
Stjepan works for the company Top Cow, for this company he
creates comics and covers for them and the artwork for the current series of
witchblade.1
Top cow has helped Stjepan Sejic when it comes to him making his own comic
series by publishing it for him. “when I make a suggestion or have an idea...
they listen”.16 When it come to Stjepan Sejic creating his comics he normally
creates some random doodles then while he creates them, the story of the
characters just comes to him. 16 “what Drives me? What drives any storyteller?
There is a bunch of characters jumping on top of my head and poking me to write
their stories.”16 This process that he uses
created the comics series Death Vigil.16 “I drew a character out of boredom and the
ungrateful bastard started talking.”8 When it comes to designs such as Death Vigil
he does everything. “Question: from Nrama: For death here, you did the entire
production of the book- from writing to drawings, colouring and lettering.12 Answer:
from Stjepan It is ideal for me right now.”14 Also Stjepan Sejic adds a lot
of depth to his stories, 9 so that the characters feel more alive and he also
shows this by making the first volume of Death Vigil 46 pages long.10 “Simple.
Characters needed some room to be themselves.”11
Stjepan Sejic’s chosen media of uses is Photoshop when
creating his doodles and comics. Stjepan is very quick at producing work every
day. “Generally, on a slow day it is two comic pages a day, plus some
additional side gigs and projects depending on what I mood I am in”.15
Reference
- Stjepan Sejic Deviantart account (2006), bio
- Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph eleven, sentences one to two
- Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph eleven, sentences two to six
- Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph eleven, whole paragraph
- Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph twelve, sentences three to four
- Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph twelve, sentences six to eight
- Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph thirteen, sentences three to four
- John (2014), Unleashthefanboy, paragraph nine, one to two
- John (2014), Unleashthefanboy, paragraph thirteen, whole paragraph
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph twenty one, sentence one
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph twenty two, whole paragraph
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph thirty four, sentences one to two
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph twenty nine, sentences one to five
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph thirty five, sentence one
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph forty four, whole paragraph
- Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph thirty one, whole paragraph
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October 2014
Website: tfaw.com
Stjepan Sejic deviantart account
Deviantart account created in 2006
Accessed on the 31st October 2014
Image of Stjepan Sejic comic series Death Vigil
Reporter: Russ Burlingame
Article created 7th April 2014
Accessed on 31st October 2014
Website Comicbook. com
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